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The Virtues and Vices of Speech - The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano
Giovanni Pontano, best known today as a Latin poet, also composed popular prose dialogues and essays. The De sermone, translated into English here for the first time as The Virtues and Vices of Speech, provides a moral anatomy of aspects of speech such as truthfulness, deception, flattery, gossip, bargaining, irony, wit, and ridicule.
400 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 17, 2019 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674987500 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Pages | 544 |
| Dimensions | 140 × 208 × 31 mm · 654 g |
| Language | English |
